[TriLUG] Perl modules and RPMs

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 12:04, Mike Broome wrote:
> Ideally, these modules should be known and managed by rpm.  Is there a
> straightforward way to do that?  Do I need to hand-roll a spec file for
> each one?  Or is there some standard way to create an rpm from a CPAN
> module then install it?

If you want to do them with rpm, there is a utility called
cpan2rpm that will download the module and create an rpm
of it that you can then install.  You can find a copy of it at:

http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/rpms/wtl/noarch/cpan2rpm-1.50-5wtl.noarch.rpm

That was compiled under Mandrake, but for Redhat, you can just 
compile the src.rpm yourself.  Find it at:

http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/rpms/wtl/SRPMS/cpan2rpm-1.50-5wtl.src.rpm

(Use rpmbuild --rebuild <rpmfile> to rebuild it.)

Alternatively, perl modules are one of the few things that
I can see an argument for for not placing under rpm control.
As long as they are kept separate under something like /usr/local,
then the normal CPAN stuff should work fine except for a few
rpm requirements issues.

Cheers,
Tanner
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